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Tiger Baseball visits Eastern
Monday, May 26 | 11:00 AM | Eastern High School | Louisville, KY
St. Xavier Tigers (23-10) vs. Eastern Eagles (29-6)
Monday, May 26th
Varsity Game – 11:00 AM
7th Region Tournament Quarterfinals
Louisville, KY
The St. Xavier Tigers will face the 7th Region's best record team, the Eastern Eagles, in the 2014 KHSAA 7th Region Quartferfinals today at 11:00 AM at Eastern. The two teams met earlier this season on April 8th, when the Tigers won 5-3 at Eastern as well. The Eagles won their district, so they host the Tigers today on Memorial Day. The winner will face either Manual or Atherton tomorrow at the University of Louisville's Jim Patterson Stadium at 7:15 PM.
Twitter: @WSTXSports, @TigerSports_TV, @LouCathSports
Last Game: Lost to Male 3-2 in the 26th District Championship.
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Knight Foundation invests $3.89 million to support new avenues for audience engagement in journalism
MIAMI — June 19, 2014 — Mozilla, The New York Times and The Washington Post today announced that they are teaming up to build a new content and commenting platform that will allow audiences to more deeply engage with media coverage and help news organizations everywhere better manage user comments and contributions. The online community platform is supported by $3.89 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
This open-source community platform will allow news organizations to connect with audiences beyond the comments section, deepening opportunities for engagement. Through the platform, readers will be able to submit pictures, links and other media; track discussions; and manage their contributions and online identities. Publishers will then be able to collect and use this content for other forms of storytelling and to spark ongoing discussions by providing readers with targeted content and notifications.
By putting free, efficient and scalable tools in the hands of publishers, the platform will provide an alternative to proprietary software and community platforms that can be costly and difficult to integrate and customize. With the platform publishers will be able to easily include reader contributions in their content cycle, manage their communities and gather valuable user data. The platform will also use reputation scores, self-policing and other tools to make it easier for news organizations to monitor comments.
"The Web offers all sorts of new and exciting ways of engaging with communities far beyond the ubiquitous—and often terrible—comments sections at the bottom of articles. With this collaboration, we're bringing together top talent to build new tools for newsrooms to engage," said Mozilla's Dan Sinker, head of the Knight-Mozilla Open News initiative, who will lead the project.
"When it comes to the essential task of engaging readers, different publishers have different needs. This collaboration gives us the opportunity to create a flexible solution for our industry, one that can be thoughtfully woven into each publication's digital presence," said Marc Lavallee, editor of interactive news technology at The New York Times.
"This isn't another commenting platform for publishers; it's a publishing platform for readers," said Greg Barber, director of digital news projects at The Washington Post. "Knight Foundation has given us a tremendous opportunity to create a platform for civic engagement that will help connect users and newsrooms for years to come."
"This project is an unprecedented collaboration between major players in the news space, working together to enable a shift toward more meaningful engagement with readers in newsrooms everywhere," said Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of Knight Foundation. "Through this community platform news organizations can preserve the quality of engagement that most people want, elevating civil discourse, while building a loyal following."
As a starting point for the project, Knight recently funded a human-centered design study to build a plan for the platform that centers on audience needs. The study revealed that readers do turn to comments for cues on how to react to a story, that they like reading feedback from experts in the comments, and that they are more careful about their own comments if they are permanent and attributed to them. These early findings will be used to guide production of the community platform. Ultimately the project aims to improve the relationship between users and publishers by:
● Making user-generated contributions easier to collect and package.
● Helping news organizations produce immersive, user-driven narratives typically only seen in large newsrooms.
● Giving journalists a platform to discover unique voices within their communities.
● Reaching experts to increase content quality and create value for readers.
● Changing the way journalists and users interact by shifting the relationship from comments to conversation.
The open-source platform will be shared with newsrooms everywhere. For updates on the project visit Knight Blog or follow Knight on Twitter.
About Mozilla
Mozilla (mozilla.org) has been a pioneer and advocate for the Web for more than a decade. We create and promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to discover, experience and connect to the Web on computers, tablets and mobile phones. OpenNews is a joint project between Mozilla and Knight Foundation, to create a global community of developers, journalists, makers and hackers working, learning and solving problems together to create the tools journalism needs to thrive on the open Web. mozillaopennews.org
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We worked with Pella Windows and Doors to create this customized door. The original door that the builder installed was also a Pella door. They already had the door/window dimensions from our home in their system from the original build. This made it easy because their were no measurements involved.
We went to the showroom to look at our options. We knew we wanted to keep the door black in color (it is black on both sides) and we wanted 3/4 light. Pella offered 3/4 with 8 panels which was perfect.
The door was ordered and delivered with about a 3 week turn around time. We saved money on install by having Steve remove the old door and install the new one. This step did not take long as we already had everything pre-drilled. We reused the hinges from the original door.
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October 26, Ray Moulton 1923-2010
Raymond Dexter Moulton, a World War II Veteran of the United States Army, died early Monday morning, October 25, 2010 at The Meadows of Edgewood in North Andover. Ray was born in Peabody, Massachusetts on December 5, 1923, the youngest of 8 children of the late Grace (Phalen) and Arthur Moulton. Ray married Kay Martha Webster of Newburyport on January 6, 1953. They have five children, Cathy Rae Moulton of East Kingston, NH; David Webster Moulton of Newbury; John Russell Moulton of Kensington, NH; and Martha Anne Dudley and Elizabeth Ruth Cowie, both of Newbury . They also have six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Ray and Kay opened Surfland Bait and Tackle on Plum Island in 1960, which is still run by Kay, Martha and Liz. Ray co-founded 3R Marina in 1973 on the Merrimac River behind Webster's Riverside Dairy in Newburyport. Ray, with his two sons, David and John, opened Riverfront Marine Sports in Salisbury and Newbury in 1978.
An avid fisherman, Ray was fondly known on the Merrimac as the Grey Ghost. He was immortalized in the radio fishing report by Mickey Villane as "Sleepy-Eye Moulton", being out all night fishing. Ray was also an avid golfer during his retirement and lover of all animals. He was also known to play a few hands of cards.
Private funeral services for Ray will be held at Elliott, Woodworth & Rogers Family Funeral Home, 35 Green Street, Newburyport. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in his memory to the Salvation Army, 40 Water Street, Newburyport or to the MSPCA, 400 Broadway, Route 28, Methuen, MA 01844.
A reception for friends of the family will be held Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 2 P.M. at the PITA Hall on Plum Island.
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October 26, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Kay and familiy, be sure that we are thinking of you in your time of grief. Ray and Chris Belsito
October 27, 2010 at 6:38 am
I had to smile a little bit after reading Ray's obituary.I haven't heard the name the Grey Ghost or Mickey Villane in years and this brought back some fond memories of Plum Island from my youth.Back then the Striped Bass Derby was the main event on the Island every summer and Surfland and the Beachcomber were the places to be to follow the everyday action.It seemed like everyone that stayed on the island was involved in the Derby and the competion was fierce. Ray's passing is just another reminder of the old Plum Island that I miss so much.Rest in Peace Grey Ghost.
November 4, 2010 at 8:10 am
I was just informed of Rays passing last night. I want to offer our deepest sympathys to all or you. I hope you will find comfort in all of your memories.A loved one lives forever in our hearts.Thoughts and prayers! Peter & Lou Ellen
PS great poem Martha
November 18, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Kay: We just learned Ray passed in Oct. We were thinking of you and hope the days ahead get easier. You have a great family for support and lots of "fisherman" friends. Just wanted you to know we will say prayers for all of you. Love Ya, Bette and the red bearded fisherman from NH
April 5, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Kay, Read about your husbands passing last year. We are so sad for you but know that he was the luckiest man in the world to have you and your children. Will be back soon to bug you about fishing conditions and buy bait.xoxo cathy cutler & john thibodeau
April 5, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Kay, Our hearfelt wishes go out to you and your family.He was the luckiest man i n the world to have you and we are the luckiest people to have Surfland to rely on in our many fishing endeavors. See you in a few week.xoxocathy & john
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Pure Cuff & Hoop Earrings By Gavin Feilding 08.04.2016 4649 Views
New release: Additions to the Pure Suite.
Introducing the latest additions to the Pure Suite - Pure Cuff and Pure Hoop Earrings.
The Pure Cuff and Earrings were designed to complement the existing Pure Ring which has become a staple piece in the jewellery box of the Kailis woman. Kailis Pure Suite epitomises the contemporary take on pearl jewellery. Timeless in its simplicity, each piece communicates style, strength and femininity.


text: Hotels worldwide are making the change to locking shower dispensers for their guest amenities programs. This eco-friendly alternative approach to using disposable plastic bottles for guest amenities, allows both the environment and the hotelier to win. Wall mounted soap dispensers allow not only hotels, but spas, yoga centers, cruise lines, and restaurants to purchase their body wash, shampoo and other amenity liquids in bulk. This completely eliminates the wasted liquid and packaging which is both financially and environmentally costly.


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Bob Perry, congregational health team leader with the Baptist General Convention of Missouri, refuses to lay the responsibility for lack of diversity in churches at the feet of the church growth gurus. He believes McGavran and others "simply stated a theory that is born out of nature and social tendencies."Perry, one of my colleagues at the BGCM, rightly points out that there is blame to go around. Although he notes other factors, there is a clear problem with the church-growth teachings that proposed that churches will grow faster if people do not have to cross racial or class lines. To intentionally try to build a church that excludes people because of their race or class is not only unhealthy, it is unbiblical. Christians should be leading the way in bringing reconciliation. As Perry notes, we must reach out to those who are different than us. We should intentionally seek to leave our little bubble.
But Perry also believes healthy churches put forth the effort needed to reflect the larger communities they serve.
When he served as director of missions in Richmond (Va.) Baptist Association, he realized the association had 15 predominantly African-American churches, about 60 Anglo churches, a handful of other ethnic congregations but not a single truly multiracial, multi-ethnic church.
Perry made attempts at the individual level to bridge divisions. He and his wife, Marilyn, joined a black church. He led the association to call its first African-American moderator and include African-American church leaders on associational councils and committees.
"All of this was just taking small steps to try to move in the direction of greater inclusiveness, diversity and unity," he said. "But I can't claim that we moved very far in my six years there toward truly integrating a church or creating a multi-ethnic church."
Perry became convinced worship style remains the dividing line between races, particularly between African-Americans and Anglos.
"I don't think there are theological barriers to black and whites worshipping together. I don't think there are sociological barriers that prevent it; we have learned to integrate almost every other institution of society. I think the major holdup has been the varying expectations people have developed about what genuine worship of God looks and feels like," he said.
"If everyone would be a little flexible, and if the church would make a real effort to accommodate the preferences of those they hope to reach, we will see more multi-ethnic churches."
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I go to The Crossing, the church the cover story started out with. This issue is not as complicated as one supposes. I have become very good friends with a couple of hispanic families and I asked one of them how they ended up at the church. The wife in the family said The Crossing was helping out the spanish church they were members of. Ultimately they decided to begin going to The Crossing and they began to invite people, who happened to be spanish. And then those people would invite people, etc. And that's only one story of one family's influence. It really was a God thing and also it was a congregation's willingness to not be afraid of those they view as different from them. They are not all that different by the way. I have found this wholoe deal of diversity and focusing on the differences of various races in the U.S., etc. is bunk. They have the same dreams, aspirations, fears, etc. as us white folk do.
I went to a church who had 1,500 members and maybe 3 non-white members. They wrung their hands about hos to get more diversity in church alot - and that'sall they did. If I had to guess, that church was not ready in its membership to welcome other races to their congregation. They have since merged with another larger congregation - but I bet the ration hasn't really changed much.


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Doughnuts and Building Quotes – What do they have in common?
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Building Costs quoted in many contracts are unrealistic – here's why I was just a young, wide eyed, impressionable kid when doughnuts were first introduced to Australia. My father took me to this specialty restaurant in George street Sydney called … Read More


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Meghan Trainor @ Fillmore
A Fuller family concert event! We arrived to a record long line. I think everybody shows up on time for these pop shows versus my shows where you stroll in late to be cool. Line wrapped around the block and back on itself. We made due. We moved around during the entire night. From the balcony, to the floor, to … Read More
My First Concert
Reagan said she wanted to go see Nine Inch Nails play after seeing some of the concert video earlier in the year. Plus, as we drive to soccer, I often crank up NIN to get her ready to play. She enjoys this type of music. She loves loud stuff. So we got there later, got her a shirt, and got … Read More


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Situational Depression
Situational depression and its treatment
Situational Depression is a mental state of depression which lasts for a short duration. Many people suffer from this problem and sometimes need to consult a psychologist. Usually people undergoing the aftermath of a trauma, suffer from this mental condition. The incidents which induce situational depression are death of a close one, loss of job, huge losses in business, divorce and break ups, retirement and other adjustment disorders.
This kind of depression is very different from clinical depression which is much more severe. In our normal lives we cope with different situations, however some unexpected incidents overwhelm people in such a way that they lose their ability cope with the situation which leads to emotional breakdown. Surviving natural disasters, or riots or war have a tormenting effect on a person.
Symptoms of situational depression are:
• Crying
• Listlessness
• Insomnia
• Loosing focus from everyday activities
• Withdrawal from family and friends
• Bouts of sadness
• Loss of concentration
If one observes the above mentioned symptoms then they might be suffering from this adjustment disorder. This is not a severe mental disease and can be cured if the person suffering from Situational Depression takes a few precautionary steps. Some ways to shed depression is eating a well balanced wholesome diet, developing proper and timely sleeping habits, developing a hobby, going out and having fun, exercising, etc.
If these small self therapies are of no avail then visiting a psychotherapists is advised. The therapists will spend time talking to the patient and treat the disorder session wise. The doctor may also take help from anti depressants, anti anxiety medicines and the like.
This problem should not be mistaken for severe mental conditions, and the person suffering from it should not be treated like a mental patient. A lot of love, care and compassion are required to treat people suffering from depression. There is absolutely nothing wrong on visiting a psychiatrist and one should not overlook it only because people would mock at them.
No catastrophe can destroy a person's inner strength and compel him or her to live a sad and listless life. Everyone is entitled to a happy and carefree life and if a few sessions with a psychotherapist can yield fruitful results then why not?
There are many herbal remedies which can help prevent or cure depression. St. John's Wort and SAMe are very good for such problems. Controlling caffeine is another important step towards curbing depression. Sometimes caffeine related products enhance depression by acting as a stimulant, which worsens the problem for the patient. Caffeine addicts must steer clear from tea, coffee and soft drinks.
Avoiding alcohol is another important step towards shunning depression. Alcohol has done no good to anyone. It just spoils the liver and the mental consciousness compelling people to do wrong, which they later regret. Alcohol germinates underlying emotional problems leading to continuous depression. Drugs also aggravate all problems; they must be avoided at all circumstances.
Talking to trusted, close people is again an excellent idea. Whatever is bothering the patient must be spoken out so that the burden is reduced. Talking can yield some excellent advices which can be very beneficial for the patient concerned. Speaking out, decreases the inner turmoil and gives peace of mind.
Starting up new hobbies can keep depression at bay. Anything which makes the sufferer happy can be called a hobby. Reading, gardening, music, writing, cooking, etc all help in venting out muffled emotions which are the root cause of depression. Therefore hobbies can act as a great way to spend leisure hours by doing something creative.
Here are a few ways to recover from situational depression:
• Letting out negative ideas
• Being optimistic about the future
• Going for regular counseling
• Participate in social events and gatherings
• Talk to trusted people
The above mentioned points need to be taken care of in order to prevent situational depression. It may not be easy, but it does not mean that life should come to a standstill if something wrong happens. Having the strength to fight all odds is the recognition of a strong person. Be mentally strong and avoid depression.


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At St. Wilfred's College for Girl's we have a strong focus on student's academic progress and achievement along with Indian values and traditions. This is evidenced in the latest results where our students have done exceptionally well.
At St. Wilfreds College we aim at providing education along with holistic development of the students. We are enabling students to grow up to be analytical, investigative, inquisitive, and introspective and task oriented giving experiential learning.
Here, at St. Wilfreds College for Girls our main motive is to empower the students to handle the multifaceted necessicities of rapidly changing world by providing knowledge, communication skills & leadership qualities. A variety of courses enables our students with career ambition to the bliss of knowledge as well as meets the challenges of present world
The institution has not just kept pace with the changing world, but has been the pioneering spirit behind many innovations in the field of education. We offer strategic values addition to all students by equipping them with different skill sets required by today's highly competitive world.
St. Wilfred's College for Girls has been recognized as a premier institution of higher learning for women.A center for academic excellence achievement,today it is one of the finest institutions for social sciences, humanities, commerce and IT.


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I ran into this one at one of the premier spice shops in Israel. There's a whole town, Beit Lechem HaGlili (Bethlehem of the Galilee) that's devoted to spice farming. The town has an interesting history, having been settled by German Templars who cleared the land and built up a town and community under the auspices of the Ottoman Sultan (or via payments to him). They were expelled after the British controlled Israel and hostilities grew between the British and Germany.
Today the spice farming of the area has been continued, though the Templars are long gone.
While shopping in the spice store (with my wife – who really enjoyed it), I came across this…
That's a mixed pile of rocks and minerals with bits of bark and dried flower petals. It didn't seem particularly edible to me, so I peered closely to understand what it was…
A Pile (not sure I translated that right)! For blessing and luck! Effective against the evil eye!
Place in an old pan and burn the stones (and mixture), passing through each room of the house to purify spiritually. Then throw the stones in a can (in the trash).
I've never heard of this one, though my son says he's seen such a pile in some homes in Tzfat (Safed – the city of mysticism). Some of the ingredients look similar to or are the same as in the bisomim, the holy incense of the Beis HaMikdash (the Holy Jewish Temple), but I'm no expert on either the temple incense or minerals to know exactly what's what.
I haven't run into this segulah before and have no other info.
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Some people would consider me a somewhat of a clean freak. My best friend (and former roommate) has said that she would feel comfortable eating off my kitchen floor at any time.
Perhaps I have developed this reputation because when I am stressed about something I cope by cleaning. It's my productive outlet. There are other parts of my house that leave something to be desired. People who know me in real life know that unless I'm really stressed about something I don't have the energy to keep my entire house clean from top to bottom. I am a mom to small, active and adorable little persons who not only require lots of time, but also create lots of messes. One day I spent four hours just spot-cleaning dried boogers off my walls. True story. The point of this rambling intro is that I am not any kind of expert on house cleaning, (Not that I really think I have fooled any of you into believing that I am.) but I have found several articles that I thought were worth sharing. Plus I added my own most useful house cleaning tips that I have discovered through trial and error.
- Clean up spills as they happen. (It saves so much effort!)
- Boiling water is your best defense against dried-on sticky spills, just be careful.
- Spend 5-15 minutes every day getting rid of clutter.
- Organization is half the battle.
- I send hard plastic bath toys through the dishwasher and foam letters through the washing machine every time that I clean the bathroom.
- Play music while you clean.
Dawn can really cut down on the effort needed to clean your bathroom.-I Dare You To Eat It
The key to keeping a house clean with small children underfoot is getting them involved.-The Mom Blog
Many of things that are just cluttering up your house may be useful to someone else.-The Bellingham Herald
Some things to consider when cleaning out your garage.- Seattle Pi
Recipes for making your own all natural cleaning products.- Funcoast.com


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Haven't found anything yet?
The high quality design carpets of the collection "Victoria" catch your eye with their natural style and their soft quality. With comfortable terra tones, these carpets create a cozy atmosphere, set special accents and transform your rooms into an oasis of well-being.
"Victoria" is available in 6 colours and 4 different standard sizes.


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Fewer Americans using credit cards for the holidays
According to a survey conducted by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation (as reported here by Reuters), the number of consumers using credit cards for holiday purchases will drop more than 10% this year. Only 28.3% of shoppers say they'll use credit cards to buy presents, down from 31.5% last year.
What are we doing instead? Paying cash. The number of survey respondents who said they'll be using cash to buy holiday gift this year rose by almost exactly the same percentage as the drop in credit-card users, at 9.1%. This is a step in the right direction for consumers, as more of us are making a conscious decision to live within our means.
It's bad news for the already-beleaguered credit-card industry, though; we've recently written about new data showing that credit-card companies will probably have many more defaults next year.
It's also bad news for the nation's retailers, which are already bracing for a weak holiday shopping season. The National Retail Federation survey also revealed that we're buying more practical gifts this year. A greater percentage of consumers plan to buy clothing this year, and fewer are buying electronics and jewelry.
Why are Americans shunning their credit cards as they prepare to celebrate the winter holidays? A variety of reasons. For starters, the employment rate of more than 10 % means many of us are using our financial cushion for necessities, not presents. The weak housing market means no one's tapping into rising home equity for a loan. Finally, the tight credit market means many credit-card issuers have lowered consumers' credit limits. In the grand scheme of things, maybe having less access to credit we might have a tough time repaying is a better holiday gift than we realize.


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Roma van der Walt
Roma van der Walt is a former Member of the German national team for Modern Pentathlon who has made her passion her work. She focuses on making exercise fun, diverse and stimulating emotionally and physically to ensure the sustainability of her clients' progress. She is a firm believer in positive encouragement and working together to help people embrace the joy of healthy living. Roma draws from disciplines such as traditional conditioning, cardio, strength, yoga, martial arts, chi kung and dance. With the knowledge from her Masters degree in sports science, her experience as an elite athlete and the desire to see everyone leave class with a smile, Roma's aim is to help people to feel and look their best.


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A recent study indicates Berlin's real estate market will remain tight for years as new regulations and public pressure work against the construction necessary to meet the demands of the city's growing population.
The Hauptstadt currently needs 77,000 more apartments to provide relief to the city's difficult residential real estate market and already lacks enough vacant property to permit the necessary amount of residential construction, according to a Tagesspiegel report.
The conclusion was reached by the research firm Regiokontext, which completed a "Develoment of apartment demand" study for Berlin's Urban Development Ministry.
To provide the approximately 60,000 people moving to the city every year, Berlin needs to add 20,000 new apartments annually but reportedly continues to fall short — only 14,000 new units were added to the market last year. By 2030, the city needs to construct 194,000 new units but only has the potential to add 179,000 by building rooftop flats and filling in vacant lots.
"All potential construction sites must now be considered," Maren Kern, head of the Berlin-Brandenburg association of apartment companies (BBU), told the paper.
The city's SPD-led senate promised to tackle the problem five years ago with little result. Plans to add apartments on the rim of the former Tempelhof airport were quashed by a public vote and, according to Tagesspiegel, new large subdivisions such as the Elisabeth-Aue in Pankow were put on hold by the governing coalition.
An effort to protect more trees has also reportedly made it more difficult to build flats on rooftops and in vacant lots.
The city's oft-criticized construction minister Katrin Lompscher (Die Linke) is hoping the city's own apartment companies can be part of the solution.
"The six government apartment companies will be responsible for about one-third of the new construction with just under 30,000 [new] apartments by 2021," she was quoted by the paper as saying.
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McDonnell F-101F "Voodoo"
F-101F Serial Nu: 57-0342 Formerly assigned to the Florida Military Aviation Museum at Clearwater-St. Petersburg Airport, when the museum closed the aircraft was removed from the facility and placed in outside storage. Officially a part of the U.S. Air Force Museum, Wright Patterson AFB collection, the F-101F been placed on indefinite loan to MAPS Air Museum for restoration purposes. Our F101's last active duty was with the Texas ANG , 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron based at Ellington Field, Texas.


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DEMOS: Democracy and Equality Matters for Our Society - Political participation
The value of democracy is at stake in Europe. In some countries, a sceptical or negative attitude to democratic processes has emerged. We have also seen the rise of political parties that reinforce this scepticism as well as the emergence of more authoritarian forms of government. It is becoming increasingly evident that substantial sections of European societies have either lost faith in the democratic process or feel there is no point in participating. This can lead to people searching for 'simple' or more extreme solutions to problems in society - anti-immigration sentiment, racism, far-right beliefs, religious radicalism etc.
This partnership will enable our target groups to participate more actively and more inclusively in the societies in which they live in their respective countries. It will give them the knowledge and skills they need to contribute in a positive and pro-active manner in democratic society, giving them an experiential understanding of both contemporary and historical socio-cultural issues and the political structures that have shaped them. Participants will be made aware that by contributing to the democratic process, every individual has a voice and that non-participation and passivity can lead to alienation, apathy and social exclusion. The concepts of rights and responsibilities, democracy and law will drive the development of the DEMOS project.
Our target groups will:
- Gain knowledge and understanding of both the political systems that govern our societies at local, national and European levels as well as the historical influences that have shaped them.
- Have opportunities to reflect on the beliefs and values which influence their attitudes and actions as both individuals and members of our communities based on the commitments of human rights, social responsibility and democracy.
- Have access to evidence of DEMOS activities which will be communicated through a range of media: e.g. video, website, blogposts. These activities will be summarised as part of one final, high-quality photographic video presentation which will highlight the overarching themes of respect, freedom, equality, solidarity and justice based on the European Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The target groups of the DEMOS Project are people who may not be fully aware of their rights and responsibilities while living under a democracy. They may also display low levels of civic engagement and low patterns of voting e.g.
- New and hard to reach migrant groups, refugees and asylum seekers
- Younger learners especially those from marginalised and underserved communities
- Adults from marginalised and underserved communities
- Women – particularly as they are proportionately underrepresented in our parliaments.
Multi-sector partner groups are another target group of interest to the DEMOS project, particularly those who operate in the civic space and who work with underserved communities to promote civic and political engagement e.g. MEP's, political institutions such as local councils, political parties, third-level Institutions - departments with remits concerning politics and civics, arts organisations who can collaborate with us on this project.
Most of the partners know each other from previous Erasmus+ projects. The coordinator was looking for institutions that offer political education as part of their provision, and for countries where societal and democratic marginalisation is increasing.
The coordinator sent out a draft of the application and invited members of the network to join the consortium and to send in examples for possible projects. After consultations with the Austrian National Agency, the coordinator had to exclude some interested institutions such was the interest in working on this project. Therefore, the coordinator identified the institutions most suited, using geographical criteria and by evaluating the quality and the degree of innovation of the example projects submitted. These are the partner countries: Ireland, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria and Austria.
It is expected that partner and other relevant stakeholders will learn innovative methods for reaching marginalised groups and be able to integrate these into future educational provision.
This will lead to a higher degree of political and social inclusion and offer new perspectives to our target groups.
Herbert Depner has been working for Wiener Volkshochschulen (Vienna Adult Education Centres) since 1981 and has been involved in European cooperation projects since 1995. Since 2011, his work has focused exclusively on Europe and he has gained experience with Grundtvig, Leonardo, Interreg, and ESF. The Erasmus+ programme provided him with fresh motivation and has since led to his involvement in 14 projects. In 2017, Herbert Depner was appointed Erasmus+ ambassador.
This text was written in the context of the Austrian EPALE Conference 2019. The publication of the conference can be found here:
- Publikation 2019 "Politische Erwachsenenbildung in Österreich und Europa" (DE)
- Publication 2019 "Citizenship Education in Austria and Europe (EN)
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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gramPosted: August 17, 2012 Filed under: science, technology 1 Comment
A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data— around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
The work, carried out by George Church and Sri Kosuri, basically treats DNA as just another digital storage device. Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0).
To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it — just as if you were sequencing the human genome — and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary. To aid with sequencing, each strand of DNA has a 19-bit address block at the start (the red bits in the image below) — so a whole vat of DNA can be sequenced out of order, and then sorted into usable data using the addresses.
Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time, for three very good reasons: It's incredibly dense (you can store one bit per base, and a base is only a few atoms large); it's volumetric (beaker) rather than planar (hard disk); and it's incredibly stable — where other bleeding-edge storage mediums need to be kept in sub-zero vacuums, DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.
It is only with recent advances in microfluidics and labs-on-a-chip that synthesizing and sequencing DNA has become an everyday task, though. While it took years for the original Human Genome Project to analyze a single human genome (some 3 billion DNA base pairs), modern lab equipment with microfluidic chips can do it in hours. Now this isn't to say that Church and Kosuri's DNA storage is fast — but it's fast enough for very-long-term archival.
Just think about it for a moment: One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That's 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you'd need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos. In Church and Kosuri's case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA — Church's latest book, in fact — and proceeded to make 70 billion copies (which they claim, jokingly, makes it the best-selling book of all time!) totaling 44 petabytes of data stored.
Looking forward, they foresee a world where biological storage would allow us to record anything and everything without reservation. Today, we wouldn't dream of blanketing every square meter of Earth with cameras, and recording every moment for all eternity/human posterity — we simply don't have the storage capacity. There is a reason that backed up data is usually only kept for a few weeks or months — it just isn't feasible to have warehouses full of hard drives, which could fail at any time. If the entirety of human knowledge — every book, uttered word, and funny cat video — can be stored in a few hundred kilos of DNA, though… well, it might just be possible to record everything (hello, police state!)
It's also worth noting that it's possible to store data in the DNA of living cells — though only for a short time. Storing data in your skin would be a fantastic way of transferring data securely…
Human immortality could be possible by 2045, say Russian scientistsPosted: August 1, 2012 Filed under: body, brain, conciousness, life, science, technology Leave a comment
by Lauren O'Neil from cbc.ca
If Dmitry Itskov's 2045 initiative plays out as planned, humans will have the option of living forever with the help of machines in only 33 years.
It may sound ridiculous, but the 31-year-old Russian mogul is dead serious about neuroscience, android robotics, and cybernetic immortality.
He has already pulled together a team of leading Russian scientists intent on creating fully functional holographic human avatars that house artificial brains which contain a person's complete consciousness – in other words, a humanoid robot.
Together, they've laid out an ambitious course of action that would see the team transplant a human brain into an artificial body (or 'avatar') in as little as seven years time.
Now, Itskov is asking the world's richest people for help in financing the project.
In exchange, he's offered to coordinate their own personal immortality projects for free.
"I urge you to take note of the vital importance of funding scientific development in the field of cybernetic immortality and the artificial body," he writes in an open letter to members of the Forbes World's Billionaires List.
"Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death."
Itskov goes on to offer skeptics a meeting with "a team of the world's leading scientists working in this field " to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality.
And while many are skeptical that such a plan could ever come to fruition, Popular
Science Magazine points that phase one — creating a robot controlled by a human brain — is already well within reach.
"DARPA is already working on it via a program called "Avatar" (which, incidentally, is also the name of Itskov's project) through which the Pentagon hopes to create a brain-machine interface that will allow soldiers to control bipedal human surrogate machines remotely with their minds," writes PopSci's Clay Dillow.
"And of course there are all the ongoing medical prosthesis projects that have shown that the human nervous system can interface with prosthetic enhancements, manipulating them via thought. Itskov draws a clear arc from what we have now to the consciousness-containing holograms that he envisions. All we have to do is attack the technological obstacles in between, one at a time, until we get there."
Discovery's Alyssa Danigelis takes an opposing stance to the very idea.
"There's a world of difference between pursuing a brain-controlled exoskeleton to help paraplegics regain control and wanting to essentially upload a human brain into an artificial body," she writes.
"I read a sci-fi novel involving disembodied live brains once. It didn't turn out well"
Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and the PCPosted: April 19, 2012 Filed under: technology Leave a comment
In 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer and be connected all over the world. Courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Well… this guy is awesomePosted: February 14, 2012 Filed under: art, astronomy, body, brain, geography, history, intelligence, life, memory, music, science, society, technology Leave a comment
Jason Silva. Futurist… and self proclaimed Ecstatic Truth Lover and Techno Optimist.
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How does SOPA affect Canada and what can we do about it?Posted: January 18, 2012 Filed under: society, technology Leave a comment
For Canadians wanting to learn about the US bill SOPA and PIPA, you can read this blog:
Take a listen to the CBC radio show link on there, and you will understand much more about the effects we will experience here in Canada from the passage of this US legislation. You will also find links to the Canadian counterparts of the bills and ways you can help oppose them.
Do you want access to the whole internet? Or only part of it?
Scientists Reconstruct Brains' Visions Into Digital Video In Historic ExperimentPosted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: body, brain, science, technology Leave a comment
UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips. Eventually, this process will allow you to record and reconstruct your own dreams on a computer screen.
I just can't believe this is happening for real, but according to Professor Jack Gallant—UC Berkeley neuroscientist and coauthor of the research published today in the journal Current Biology—"this is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery. We are opening a window into the movies in our minds."
Indeed, it's mindblowing. I'm simultaneously excited and terrified. This is how it works:
They used three different subjects for the experiments—incidentally, they were part of the research team because it requires being inside a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging system for hours at a time. The subjects were exposed to two different groups of Hollywood movie trailers as the fMRI system recorded the brain's blood flow through their brains' visual cortex.
The readings were fed into a computer program in which they were divided into three-dimensional pixels units called voxels (volumetric pixels). This process effectively decodes the brain signals generated by moving pictures, connecting the shape and motion information from the movies to specific brain actions. As the sessions progressed, the computer learned more and more about how the visual activity presented on the screen corresponded to the brain activity.
An 18-million-second picture palette
After recording this information, another group of clips was used to reconstruct the videos shown to the subjects. The computer analyzed 18 million seconds of random YouTube video, building a database of potential brain activity for each clip. From all these videos, the software picked the one hundred clips that caused a brain activity more similar to the ones the subject watched, combining them into one final movie. Although the resulting fukn is low resolution and blurry, it clearly matched the actual clips watched by the subjects.
Think about those 18 million seconds of random videos as a painter's color palette. A painter sees a red rose in real life and tries to reproduce the color using the different kinds of reds available in his palette, combining them to match what he's seeing. The software is the painter and the 18 million seconds of random video is its color palette. It analyzes how the brain reacts to certain stimuli, compares it to the brain reactions to the 18-million-second palette, and picks what more closely matches those brain reactions. Then it combines the clips into a new one that matches what the subject was seeing. Notice that the 18 million seconds of motion video are not what the subject is seeing. They are random bits used just to compose the brain image.
Given a big enough database of video material and enough computing power, the system would be able to match any images in your brain.
In this other video you can see how this process worked in the three experimental targets. On the top left square you can see the movie the subjects were watching while they were in the fMRI machine. Right below you can see the movie "extracted" from their brain activity. It shows that this technique gives consistent results independent of what's being watched—or who's watching. The three lines of clips next to the left column show the random movies that the computer program used to reconstruct the visual information.
Right now, the resulting quality is not good, but the potential is enormous. Lead research author—and one of the lab test bunnies—Shinji Nishimoto thinks this is the first step to tap directly into what our brain sees and imagines:
Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie. In order for this technology to have wide applicability, we must understand how the brain processes these dynamic visual experiences.
The brain recorders of the future
Imagine that. Capturing your visual memories, your dreams, the wild ramblings of your imagination into a video that you and others can watch with your own eyes.
This is the first time in history that we have been able to decode brain activity and reconstruct motion pictures in a computer screen. The path that this research opens boggles the mind. It reminds me of Brainstorm, the cult movie in which a group of scientists lead by Christopher Walken develops a machine capable of recording the five senses of a human being and then play them back into the brain itself.
This new development brings us closer to that goal which, I have no doubt, will happen at one point. Given the exponential increase in computing power and our understanding of human biology, I think this will arrive sooner than most mortals expect. Perhaps one day you would be able to go to sleep with a flexible band around your skull labeled Sony Dreamcam, wirelessly connected to your iPad 7.
Original article from gizmodo can be found here.
Floating city, libertarian colonies close to realityPosted: August 24, 2011 Filed under: economy, politics, technology Leave a comment
Cities come in all shapes and sizes, but can they float?
PayPal founder Peter Thiel recently invested $1.25 million to try to make that happen. By offering support to the Seasteading Institute, he has jump-started efforts to create city-state communities afloat on ocean platforms. In 2009, the institute held a 3D design competition to help people visualize what these sea-bound communities may look like (see photos above and below).
The structures will be 12,000 tons, diesel-powered and carry around 270 people per unit, as reported by Details Magazine. The idea is to link the structures together to create ocean metropolises equipped to accommodate millions of people.
But here's the kicker: Thiel hopes to place the structures beyond the coastal jurisdiction of existing countries and their laws. Call it a libertarian pipe dream if you will, but he hopes to experiment with different types of government styles. In some cases, he wishes to start up city-states without minimum wages and welfare, with fewer weapons restrictions and "looser" building codes, he says. Seasteading already has a team working on the legal issues involved.
Floating pilots, which will include office buildings, will be placed off the coast of San Francisco as early as next year.
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NHL playoffs: Red Wings advance as Ducks falter at home in Game 7
Emerson Etem (left) and Teemu Selanne wave goodbye to fans after the Ducks' Game 7 loss. (Getty Images)
By Adrian Dater
Anaheim's Francois Beauchemin had a tremendous season for the Anaheim Ducks. He was in the discussion among Norris Trophy voters, anchoring the defense for a team that finished second overall in the seriously tough Western Conference.
But in Beachemin's native French-Canadian tongue, he was the chevre of Sunday's Game 7 between his Ducks and the Detroit Red Wings. That means goat. It's true, he was credited with a lucky late power-play goal that accounted for the final score, but the damage from an earlier incident on the power play had already been done.
Beauchemin tried to get fancy during a game in which keep-it-safe fundamental play was the bylaw, and for that he will be shown on every hockey highlight show around the globe for the next day.
Beauchemin's spin-o-rama blind backhand pass was intercepted and converted into a short-handed goal by Detroit's Justin Abdelkader with 3:23 left in the first period, which broke a 1-1 tie, killed all of Anaheim's building momentum and ultimately resulted in a 3-2 loss at the Honda Center.
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No doubt about it, that was the key play of the game. Anaheim, the No. 2 seed, one that had a 3-2 series lead, was never the same after that.
Detroit thus moves on to face the Chicago Blackhawks in round 2, while Anaheim is left to ponder how their otherwise great regular season fizzled out.
The following are my explanations, along with other observations from what was a great victory for a proud Original Six franchise on the road:
• Corey Perry was terrible. That is the biggest reason why Anaheim blew the series. The highly-paid first-line winger wasn't physical, he wasn't abrasive and he wasn't passionate. In the corners, he didn't win many battles. He got feisty at times in Game 7, but too much in the frustrated, retaliatory sense. He didn't score a goal in the series, and the Ducks don't win when that happens.
• The gap between the Ducks' forwards and defense was way too big most of the game. In layman's terms, it means Ducks defenders needed binoculars too often when trying to make a pass up the ice to their offensive mates.
• It might be tempting to go with a "Bruce Boudreau showed some panic" meme over his decision to move Perry off the top line with Ryan Getzlaf and Bobby Ryan at the start of the game, to match Mike Babcock's move of Henrik Zetterberg off his regular line with Pavel Datsyuk and onto one with Valtteri Filppula and Daniel Cleary.
But Perry soon was back with Getzlaf and Ryan the rest of the game. It was the line centered by Saku Koivu (no points, minus-4 in the final four games) that was lazy around the net when Zetterberg scored early to make it 1-0. Boudreau probably will take some criticism for thinking too hard in order to match wits with Babcock, but I don't think that was the big problem.
That said, Boudreau now is 1-4 in Game 7s as a coach.
• Sheldon Souray looked his age in this one. He was behind the play the whole time on Detroit's critical third goal in the second period. He was just reaching with the stick on the whole play, culminated by Filppula's goal. The 36-year-old D-man was a healthy scratch in Game 3 and seemed to lose some confidence when Boudreau put him back in.
• Hate to say anything bad about the brilliant Teemu Selanne, but he wasn't good enough in this series either. He failed to score after Game 1, and took a foolish frustration penalty against Patrick Eaves that ended a Ducks power play late in the second period.
If this was the final game of Selanne's incredible career, it will be a shame.
• Four of the five worst teams on the penalty kill to this point have now been eliminated from the playoffs. Anaheim was one of them. They were at 73.9 percent coming into Game 7. Not good enough.
• The Ducks also iced the puck all night. In the final two minutes, they committed two critical icing violations. Teams trying to tie it up late can't do that.
For the Wings…
• Jonathan Ericsson was the unsung hero of the series for Detroit. The Swedish defender finished a plus-1. Consider the late-season turnaround for him: After a MINUS-5 effort against Chicago March 31, Ericsson finished even or better the final 13 regular-season games, and in six of the seven games in this series.
• Pavel Datsyuk wasn't the major player in Game 7, but he was excellent nonetheless, getting five shots on net through the first two periods and totally outplaying center counterpart Ryan Getzlaf most of the night.
Datsyuk scored a couple of outrageous goals in the series, and seemed to intimidate the Ducks' defense every second. You can't blame Anaheim for feeling that way.
• Detroit was better on faceoffs in the series (52.1 percent entering Game 7 and they were better than that in this one) and that allowed them to play the kind of puck-possession game that has been their hallmark for 20 years now.


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Monday, November 28, 2011
Welcome Orphans
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Slow Death
this creeps round under yr skin, leaves u twitchin
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Monday, November 21, 2011
U.S. Girls
Meghan Remy's got a new album out don't yr know...
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Kania Tieffer
Brussels babe gets jiggy with her special blend of skitty shivers... My French is dire (or should that be Flemish) so I'm probably missing out on the banter side of things but this is so catchy it doesn't really matter… The rest of this excellent EP (le sens des valeurs) can be found over at FMA
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Love 'em... two no wavers from Cardiff giving all these glum recession vibes a what for...
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Sunday, November 06, 2011
48 Space Platform CDR - Joinedbywire
This lushly packaged release from Joinedbywire, gives a pleasant Nagasaki shake to the speakers. Textural towers of junkshopped machine give out a pure concrete satisfaction of jittering geriatric rivet and other broken automata. But it's not jumping into the deep end too quickly, things are allowed to develop gradually, built up on the dust of insectal aluminium and spazzed circuits... paraphernalia piling until it's a mechanised tumour pushing through skin with parasitic life. A mangle of malfunction, snapping hungrily or scurrying through your cranium with nervous energies, the magnetized haze, a myriad of loose mouthed spurs.
Tracks bleeding into each other, constantly paring themselves back into an oasis of bruised ambience… twilight reflections peppered in field recordings of overlapping dirge and velveteen reek, revealing secret pockets of Viennese chimes that clank with an unnatural aura between your ears. The last track Drym Lane Atomball stretches leisurely. A threadbare pianola, revolving on the circumference of some oscillating tardis thread, mutating into a mechanoid Windy and Carl. Dronic sails battered by nano-crunch, whirring glass and blasting furnace …this is so goddamn beautiful ,it's as if you could glimpse the scope of the universe in its grainy collisions... that neo primitive machine vocab, blowing out into the hissy ferrics of actual human conversation... something that definitely seems a possible seed behind this album's creation…
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Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Bardo Pond and Circle
It was like glass flying past my ears… catching instrument reflections; fragments within… Those guitars embossing rich shapes, tangles of crayoned majesty … the noise was incredible, satisfying, full of raw claws … that clarinet slaughter smearing… vocals eaten by delay… can't believe it's taken me this long to catch Bardo Pond live, but that rich sandpapery vibe was well worth the wait…
Right from the start out Circle were on a full-on Hawkwind homage… plying plenty of explosive riffology, rocking out the feel good energy in glittery spandex and studded metal … Mika Ratto giving out a real show of Norseman fist. Coming across like a Finnish Freddy Mercury strutting the stage part ringmaster/part rock cliché Lenin… adding vocal syrups and keyboard lightning , stirring up the soup, yodelling all shamanic into the mic… They diverted into some artsy DNA crawl of guitar strings and collapsing tempos, but the rhythmic highway was never that far away as they tore it up again and again in heady psycho nautical directions, slapping that well worn counter of rock/metal with fresh meat… One of the best croft gigs of 2011...
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text: Digestive Health Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nutrition Print Is Caffeine Bad for People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease? By Amber J. Tresca facebook twitter linkedin Amber J. Tresca is a freelance writer and speaker who covers digestive conditions, including IBD. She was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 16. Learn about our editorial policy Amber J. Tresca Medically reviewed by Medically reviewed by Emmy Ludwig, MD on August 03, 2016 Emmy Ludwig, MD, is board-certified in gastroenterology and hepatology. She practices at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Learn about our Medical Review Board Emmy Ludwig, MD Updated on September 28, 2019 Vlad Fishman / Getty Images More in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nutrition Diagnosis Living With Support & Coping Crohn's Disease Ulcerative Colitis Related Conditions Surgery Treatment View All In This Article Table of Contents Expand Overall Effect Digestion Children Dehydration Sleep Medications Culture View All Back To Top A stimulant found in many different foods and beverages, caffeine affects the body in several ways. Most people know that caffeine is found in coffee, tea, and cola drinks, but it can also be present in chocolate, coffee-flavored ice cream or frozen yogurt, energy drinks, and some medications (over-the-counter painkillers in particular). As many as 80 percent of adults in the United States consume caffeine on a daily basis. In the rest of the world, the percentage of people who use caffeine jumps to 90 percent. People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a chronic digestive disease, may wonder whether caffeine consumption is safe for them. Caffeine does have certain effects on health, but it is also important to pay attention to the method of delivery. The food or drink containing the caffeine can have a big impact on the symptoms of IBD. As with most things related to diet, moderation is key, and caffeine consumption is no different. Effects of Caffeine on the Body Caffeine tends to be seen in a positive light because it can heighten alertness, which in turn may translate into better performance at work or school. Caffeine can also stimulate metabolism and reduce anxiety in some people. However, there can also be negative effects, such as a decrease in the quality of sleep. Sleep is extremely important for people with IBD, and care should be taken to lessen the potential for caffeine to cause sleep disturbances. Caffeine and the Digestive System When it comes to the gastrointestinal system, however, caffeine-containing foods and beverages could be problematic. Coffee, in particular, which may contain anywhere between 80 and 130 mg of caffeine, has been associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Some people drink coffee in the morning in order to be able to move their bowels. It's commonly thought that it is the caffeine that stimulates the bowels, but more likely it is also due to the other chemicals found in coffee. The evidence seems to support the idea that coffee can stimulate the colon, even decaffeinated coffee (although the effects are somewhat decreased). For people with IBD, moving the bowels more frequently may be problematic, especially if chronic diarrhea is already a problem. Caffeine and Children Children with IBD are at risk for several complications, especially from the lack of certain nutrients or from general malnutrition. Caffeine can suppress the appetite, and it can compound the problem in children with IBD, who may already suffer from a lack of appetite. Children and adults with IBD who are underweight should take extra care to ensure that they are not suppressing their appetite unduly because getting enough calories every day is crucial to maintaining their weight. Is Caffeine Dehydrating? Caffeine is a diuretic: It causes a person to urinate more. It's not clear if this effect can contribute to dehydration. However, the loss of fluids could cause stools to become harder, making them more difficult to pass. Anyone who tends to have constipation will want to make sure that they are drinking enough water to compensate. Caffeine and Sleep Caffeine's effects on the body are highest about an hour after it's ingested. Caffeine isn't stored by the body and is eventually excreted in the urine, but it can continue to have effects that last four to six hours. 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These chai latté doughnuts are so delicious, plus they're mini so you can get away with having a few at once. They're frosted with a seriously creamy cashew icing, that's refined sugar free but just as creamy and lush as you'd expect.
Chai Latte Doughnuts [Vegan]
Cooking Time
To Make the Doughnuts:
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 3 tablespoons cacao powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pink salt
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1.5 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- Pinch of ground cloves
- Pinch of black pepper
- 1 3/4 cup almond milk
- 1/2 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 chia egg (1 tablespoon chia seeds mixed with 3 tablespoons water to form a gel)
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
To Make the Cashew Cream Frosting:
- 1 cup cashews, soaked for an hour in hot water
- 1/2 cup condensed coconut milk or full fat coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla powder or extract
- Pinch of pink salt
- Heat oven to 355°F and lightly grease your donut pan.
- Combine all dry ingredients with a whisk, then make a well in the middle. Add in the wet ingredients, stirring slowly to gradually incorporate the flour. Stir until a very soft dough is formed.
- Scoop dough into donut pan and smooth out on top with your finger. Bake for 10-12 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before decorating.
- Rinse and drain your cashews. Add all ingredients to a high speed blender apart from the coconut oil.
- Blend on high and after a few minutes, slowly pour in the coconut oil with the blender running. Keep blending until smooth and creamy, using the tampering stick if you have one.
- Set aside in the freezer for 30 minutes to firm up.
- Stir briefly with a spoon before dunking in your donuts. Dust with a little cacao, cinnamon and cacao nibs. Keep well for up to 4 days in the fridge.
Leftover frosting works great as a sweet spread or dip, or swirled through oatmeal.


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When preparing your images for the web it's important to keep in mind the performance and load time of your galleries and site pages. If you upload and add full resolution image files to your site galleries, it weighs down the load time and you'll have very slow galleries. The filesize is the main culprit for the performance, and the color profile can play an issue in the quality of your images after upload. We'll go over this in our recommendations below:
For the best performance we recommend resizing your images to no larger than 1920x1280. It's important that you export your images from your photo editing software with the sRGB color profile. This will ensure that your colors keep intact after you upload your images.
By default WordPress sets image quality to 80% to optimize the performance of the media load time. To change this default image compression we recommend installing a plugin like Super Simple Changes to automatically switch the 80% setting to 100%.
The dimensions of your images are important, but what is most important when considering the load time of your images and galleries on your site is the file size. We have compiled a list of our recommended apps to use to help reduce the file size of your images while keeping the quality of your images intact. 🙂
Digital Downloads?
If you're offering digital downloads to your customers you will need to upload your full resolution images and then resize your images after upload under the Gallery > Manage Galleries area. Before uploading, make sure that 'resize on upload' is turned OFF and 'backup images' is turned ON under Gallery > Other Options > Image Options. To learn more about setting up your pricelists and options for Ecommerce, check out our documentation here.


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Charleston, W. Va., August 10, 2012– With August 11 almost here Appalachian Power hopes this date on the calendar, 8/11, will serve as a reminder for residents to call 811 prior to any digging project to have underground utility lines marked.
By calling 811 homeowners and contractors are connected to a nearby one-call center, which then notifies the appropriate utility companies of the callers' intent to dig. Professional locators are sent to the requested digging site to mark the approximate locations of underground cables and pipe with flags, spray paint or both. Each utility type is marked with a specific color: red for electric, yellow for natural gas, orange for telecommunications, blue for water, and green for sewage.
"On August 11 and throughout the year, we remind homeowners and professional contractors to call 811 before digging to eliminate the risk of striking an underground utility line," said Larry Massile, distribution system inspector. "It really is the only way to know which utilities are buried in your area."
Striking a single underground power line can cause severe injury, unnecessary repair costs, fines and inconvenient outages for others. Every digging project, no matter how large or small, warrants a call to 811. Installing a mailbox, building a deck, planting a tree and laying a patio are all examples of digging projects that need a call to 811 before starting.
The depth of utility lines can vary for a number of reasons, such as erosion, previous digging projects and uneven surfaces. Utility lines need to be properly marked because even when digging only a few inches, the risk of striking an underground utility line still exists.
Appalachian Power offers a free informational video on the 811 process. To view or order a copy of the video, follow this link: https://www.appalachianpower.com/safety/CallBeforeYouDig.aspx
For more information about 811 and safe digging practices you can also visit www.call811.com
Appalachian Power has 1 million customers in Virginia, West Virginia and Tennessee (as AEP Appalachian Power). It is a unit of American Electric Power, one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, which delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined.
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text: Rebuild and Renew: Cancer Wellness Programs St. Joseph Health Regional Cancer Care is pleased to offer a variety of daytime and evening wellness program and support services to individuals who are currently going through, or have ever been through cancer treatments. These classes are designed to support patients in a community setting, through a variety of modalities. All classes are open to all patients in our community; it is not necessary that an individual be a St. Joseph Health patient. All classes are offered free of charge and all supplies are provided. See link to St. Joseph Wellness Programs in Santa Rosa and Petaluma for complete list of classes offered; some offering described below. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or (707) 525-6131 to learn more. Daytime Gentle Yoga Gentle and therapeutic yoga is offered every Tuesday and Thursday, from 10:30-noon.The format of this class is: centering/movement, information sharing/discussion and meditation/relaxation. Daytime Gentle Yoga Evening Art from the Heart Art from the Heart is offered the 1st Wednesday of each month from 5:30-7:30pm and enables individuals to create their own pathway toward their health and wellbeing through a wide variety of art forms in an open studio setting. Periodically we have special guest artist and patient artist. All supplies are provided free of charge. Art From The Heart Evening Mindfulness, Meditation and Gentle Movement Mindfulness, meditation and gentle movement is offered the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 5:30-7:30pm. Breathing exercises, exploration of mindfulness and meditation are explored to encourage a healthy lifestyle. Mindfulness, Meditation and Gentle Movement Evening Sound Healing and Gentle Yoga Sound Healing and Gentle Yoga sessions are offered the last Wednesday of each month from 5:30-7:30pm. These evenings promote wellness and healing through a sound journey using a variety of instruments, guided meditation and gentle yoga. Sound Healing and Gentle Yoga Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or (707) 525-6131 to learn more.


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St. Irene Catholic Community
28W441 Warrenville Rd.
Warrenville, IL 60504
(630) 393-2400
Mass Schedule:
Monday through Friday - 7 AM
Saturdays - 5 PM
Sundays - 8 AM and 10 AM
Holy Days - 7 AM, Noon, and 7 PM
Saturdays - 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM in the church. The confessionals are on the left side of the church as you walk in.
Email Fr. Jim at email@example.com to set up a time for Reconciliation during the week.
Eucharistic Adoration:
Thursdays - 7:30 AM - 8 PM in the chapel
Hi, how are you?
If you'd like to make a connection before joining us to worship God and serve our neighbor, please email Joe Fredrickson in the Parish Office. Joe is a recent college graduate working at the parish. He can be reached by email at email@example.com or by phone at (630) 393-2400 and dialing extension 19.
We can't wait to meet you and start working together in God's kingdom!
We can't wait to meet you and start working together in God's kingdom!


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Contest News – 19 January 2014
The 24 hour HA-DX contest concludes today at 1159 GMT. Operation is on contest bands from 160m to 10m on CW and SSB. The exchange is RST plus serial number from 001, and HA stations will send their county abbreviations.
The RSGB 1.3GHz UKAC takes place on Tuesday 21 January from 2000-2230. Working all modes on 23cm, the exchange is RS(T) plus serial number and locator.
The CQ WW 160m DX Contest takes place for 48 hours starting at 10pm on Friday 24th. Work the contiguous 48 States plus Canada only, giving a signal report and CQ Zone, which is 4 for the UK. USA stations will send a signal report and their 2-letter State code, while Canadian stations will send a signal report and their 3-letter Province code.
The Worked All Britain 1.8MHz Phone contest takes place on Saturday 25th January from 1900 to 2300 GMT. The exchange is signal report, serial number and WAB square. Entries need to be with the contest manager by 15th February. Full details of the rules and logsheets may be obtained from the WAB website www.worked-all-britain.co.uk.
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- Free InstallationWe assemble the product, and clear away the packaging.
Product Dimensions
- The sleek and comfortable Yorktown single bed will help you add more space in the bedroom.
- The strikingly detailed, inclined headboard adds back support while you sit up in bed. Make room for two with the Yorktown trundle duo. This smart design is great for making room for guests, sleepovers for kids, or even as a step-up for toddlers sharing a bed.
- Made of high grade sheesham wood
- Available in two finishes
- 12mm MDF boards support the mattress
- The maximum recommended thickness (for both the trundle bed and the single bed) is 4 inches. For the trundle bed, a mattress thicker than this will hit the single bed's side rail.
- Recommended mattress size: 75" x 36"
- Please refer to the images for dimension details
- Indoor use only
- Note: Mattress and other accessories not included, unless specified otherwise
- SKU Code: FNBDNS11TK18007
- Name: Yorktown Single Bed (Teak Finish, Without Trundle)
- Net Quantity: 1N
- Product Dimensions: 2009.0 x 899.0 x 991.0 mm
- Material Subtype : Sheesham Wood
- Bed Height : Standard
- Bed Material : Solid Wood
- Storage Type : Non Storage
- Upholstery Material : No Upholstery
- Warranty in Months : 36
- Recommended Load : 150 kg
- Style : Modern
- Material : Solid Wood
- Primary Room : Bed Room
- Secondary Room : Living Room
- Shape : Rectangular
- Floor Standing : Yes
- With Storage : FALSE
- Size : Standard
- Height : Standard
- Always use coasters or mats while keeping hot, cold or wet materials on the surface else this can affect the polish.
- Any spillage should be wiped dry with a soft cloth immediately as there is a chance of staining.
- Any cleaning needs to be done with water only
- For an ageless look of the product, we recommend a 6 monthly wax rub-down for solid-wood furniture. Wood wax is easily available in online stores & local hardware stores
- Colour / polish can fade due to prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- Note: Please avoid dragging the bed to reposition it, as this can weaken the joints over an extended period of time, especially in MDF/Particle Board beds.
- The product comes with a 36 month warranty against any manufacturing defects in the materials that have been used. During this period, Urban Ladder will in its sole discretion, repair or replace the defective component, or replace the entire product if found to be defective in material or workmanship.
- Fabrics, leatherettes and leathers, if used, will not be covered by the above Warranty unless explicitly mentioned. Please refer to the care instructions to maximise the life of these materials.
- The warranty does not cover damages due to usage of the product beyond its intended use and wear & tear in the natural course of product usage.
- Any modifications or alterations made to the products post purchase are not recommended and will void the entire Warranty.
- This warranty is applicable on products purchased on or after 1st August, 2018.
- This product comes with zero cancellation charges, until the time of delivery.
- Please check the product at the time of delivery. If it is not to your liking or is damaged/defective, you can return it on the spot. Post-delivery, only After Sales services are applicable.
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- The wood used in the furniture is perfectly seasoned for optimum moisture content, to reduce the possibility of seasonal expansion or contraction of the products.
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- We go to crazy lengths to ensure our sellers and we hold the badge of quality. We continuously look for feedback to improve the same. So please let us know!
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In 1982 the famous British photographer Ian Berry visited the Ukrainian SSR as a photojournalist. During that trip he made a series of photos of the people's life in the Soviet city of Odessa. We looked at the Ian's pictures and picked up the most interesting ones to show you in this post.
If by any chance you visit Ukraine today it is a different story opposed to images here. In 1980's Ukrainians lived in their Soviet surrounding, which is a great contrast to Ukraine of today which is now leaning to west and European Union. Same country but in two different times. More info: Ian Berry


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The quotation from Shakespeare refers to the fact that, if you change the name of something, it doesn't change its nature. Well, that doesn't seem to be the opinion of Deliveroo, who seem to think that reclassifying their workers will mean that their tax position will be better. Yeah, right!
Deliveroo accused of 'creating vocabulary' to avoid calling couriers employees Checklist for managers includes saying 'independent suppliers' instead of 'staff' and 'onboarding' instead of 'hiring'


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Redwood Community Radio
Board of Directors Meeting - 6 May, 2014 - 5 pm
Healy Senior Center, Redway, CA
I. Call to order: Meeting ground rules; opening comments from the President
II. Roll call: MEMBERS' REPS - President Siena Klein, Treasurer Nella White. PROGRAMMERS' REPS - Vice President Noel Soucy, Marcy Stein, Secretary Jack Frybulous. BOARD-APPOINTED - Mark Marchese. Station Manager Jeanette Todd (ex-officio).
Absent: BOARD-APPOINTED - Christine Doyka, Kim Peterson, and MEMBERS' REP Julia Minton.
III. Jack moved we approve April Minutes. Three revisions were accepted, Noel seconded; passed. Approval of March minutes tabled.
IV. Approval of agenda - Jack moved that Closed Session follow Open Time, Noel seconded; passed unanimously.
V. Open time – no speakers.
VI. Closed Session – Staff salaries budget
VII. Management report – See written report in Public File.
Auditor is ready to go, but there have been delays in financial staff's delivery of information to her. Jeanette to attend PMBA Conference to learn more about CPB compliance, FCC licensing, Internet and online credit-card use, etc. License extension agreement with Plateau Peak Towers. Pledge drive dates unchanged. Dazey Days bar was about $4K of gross income: good intake, low overhead (about $400). Prep for KMUD Coffee booth. Cannabis Pledge Drive was very well received, with an est. $70K taken in. Emerald Tech doing upgrades at station, and donating 50% their labor. On-air trainings are going great, and will be offered about twice a month.
Siena distributed, and asked Board members to sign, Conflict of Interest statements.
VIII. Consent calendar
A. Board directs Policy Com to begin work on bylaw and policy revisions that make election (and other) timeframes more flexible. For this year, the Board makes an exception to the Bylaws to hold the Annual Membership Meeting on June 17, separately from the June board meeting.
B. Board finalizes the deletion of policy 6.19.1, "Underwriting -- Read On-Air," which received first consideration in March.
C. Board directs Policy Com. to work with the Station Manager on the vacation-accrual policy, and a cost-of-living percentage increase policy
D. Board approves fundraising for expenses for Station Manager for PMBA conference in Portland, 27-30 May – approximately $1200.
E. Board appoints Mark Marchese as Chair of Policy Com.
F. The Board revises policy 2.2.7, Parliamentarian, to read: "At each new Board's first meeting, it shall appoint a Parliamentarian who is familiar with the meeting rules in this Policy Manual. The Parliamentarian is assisted by Policy Committee members, as well as all board members, in supporting the President by keeping RCR meeting rules in mind during Board meetings." This is the first of two required approvals.
Noel moved to approve consent calendar, Jack seconded; 5 yeas.
IX. Treasurer's report -- see also Finance Com. minutes in Public File.
Julia has resigned as Treasurer; her letter is in the board packet. Nella's appointment as Treasurer will be added to next month's Consent Calendar.
Nella: Treasurer's reports should not be required so long as Finance Committee meeting Minutes are made available. Troubled about the amount of pressure on Jeanette to deal with complicated financial questions. She suggests a semi-annual meeting to look at financials. There is a monthly budget-to-actual report, and if it's not way off, then questions be saved for that semi-annual review.
Discussions around finding options for line-of-credit. A financial consultant a year ago said we should use the $50K to secure a line of credit, and wants to see a system that makes people jump through hoops before money is spent - Board approval, if a payback scheme for withdrawals is included. Jack asked that Finance Com. reports include expressions of short- and long-term concerns.
X. Unfinished business
A. CPB requirements (see esp. pp. 16-17: CPB general provisions). Reminder: HAF offers a class on multi-cultural inclusion. Siena is still working on setting up a workshop to comply with that requirement.
B. Auditor's contract – Jeanette has communicated to the auditor, but hasn't heard back and there is not yet a signed contract. JT said that Stacy has agreed to May 31 if we got required documents to her by the end of the week, which seems unlikely.
C. Tech proposal – tech reserve? Emerald Tech coming in - see Mgr's Report. Jeanette reminded that it was discussed in Finance Com.
D. Budget approval – and discussion of deficit, if there is one.
Noel moved we approve the Finance Com recommendations regarding the 3 line-items (which would result in Board approval of the 2014 Budget) and the approval of $5K from the Fitch Fund to make our website more user-friendly to smaller devices, Mark seconded. Unanimously passed.
Jama said Minutes should be explicit about $5K having been withdrawn from Fitch funds for website project. Nella: it must always be clear when expenditures are paid for with Fitch funds.
XI. New business
A. SM report on FCC and CPB matters. Jeanette: KZYX and KHSU also have not yet received their FCC licenses.
B. Consider creation of a Compliance Com. – tabled.*
C. Create new Board job description – tabled.*
D. Schedule date with Management Evaluation Com. to meet with Board. A discussion was had during closed session. Noel moved we forgo the MEC meeting with the Board. Nella seconded. Unanimous.
E. Board member absences – [This discussion took place following the Closed Session.] Mark moved that we add to the agenda discussion of Kim Peterson's absences from Board meetings. Jack seconds; passed unanimously. Nella moved we terminate Kim's appointment to the Board. Marcy seconded. Five yeas, Noel abstained.
* - Noel moved we table New Business items B and C. Jack seconded. All 4 remaining Board members (Marcy and Mark having left) in favor.
XII. Reports
A. Programmers' Reps. – there will be a meeting for Programmers and Volunteers, including a candidates' forum, after the June 17 Membership Meeting. Candidates needed by May 30 for Marcy.
B. Members' Reps.
C. Community Advisory Boards
D. Correspondence Secretaries
E. Development Com. – Jeanette said yesterday's meeting went well. Bequest mailing being prepared. Lots of outreach and fundraising events this summer.
i. Pledge Drive subcom.
F. Policy Com. – see written report in Public File.
G. Mediation Com.
H. Website Com. – see written report in Public File. Siena announces her resignation from the Website Com.
I. Emergency Preparedness Com.
J. Management Evaluation Com.
K. Transition Com.
L. Elections Com. – Jama asked if there is a ballot-counting date yet for the members' election. (There is not.)
XIII. Monthly Meetings – dates and times
Unless otherwise noted, all meetings take place at KMUD, 1144 Redway Dr., Redway, CA.
If you plan to attend a meeting, it would be wise to confirm no changes have taken place.
A. Development 1st Mon., 3 pm
B. Board of Directors 1st Tues., 5 pm
C. Executive 2nd Mon., 11:30 am
D. Policy 2nd Mon., 3 pm
E. Website 2nd Tues., 10 am
F. Pledge Drive "Wrap-up" May 13, 2 pm
G. Mediation 2nd Tues., 5:15 (867-B Redwood Dr., Garberville)
H. Finance 3rd Tues., 3 pm
I. Board/Staff Talk Show 2nd Wed. (Jul., Oct., Jan., April)
J. Board/Staff meeting 3rd Tues. (Jun., Sep., Dec., Mar.)
Minutes submitted by the Secretary July 1, 2014.